If the cost of capital is $80 per hour, the wage paid to employees is $15 per hour, the marginal product of capital is 16 units per hour, and the marginal product of labor is 5 units per hour, to minimize its costs, the firm should ________.
A) increase the amount of labor and capital used
B) not change the amount of labor or capital
C) decrease the amount of labor used and increase the amount of capital used
D) increase the amount of labor used and decrease the amount of capital used
D) increase the amount of labor used and decrease the amount of capital used
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A. moment learning B. critical learning C. symbolic learning D. inventive learning
How do anthropologists define the term "shaman"?
What will be an ideal response?
According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest,"
a. overcrowding was not a problem at the prisons she studied. b. women were very well paid for the work they did in the prison. c. women sometimes faked illness to get faster medical attention. d. women had equal and unfettered access to adequate medical care.
Which of the following is an historically nomadic patriarchal group?
a. ?Bedouin b. ?!Kung San c. ?Imperial China d. Hua